---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 11303"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "11303"
heading: "Penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/11303"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part G — Merchant Seamen Protection and Relief"
  - "Chapter 113 — Official Logbooks"
---

# §11303. Penalties

- (a) A [master](/usc/46/10101.md?p=1) failing to maintain an official logbook as required by this part is liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of $200.
- (b) A [master](/usc/46/10101.md?p=1) failing to make an entry in the vessel’s official logbook as required by this part is liable to the Government for a civil penalty of $200.
- (c) A [person](/usc/46/3701.md?p=3) is liable to the Government for a civil penalty of $150 when the [person](/usc/46/3701.md?p=3) makes, procures to be made, or assists in making, an entry in the vessel’s official logbook—
  - (1) later than 24 hours after the vessel’s arrival at the final port of discharge; and
  - (2) that is about an occurrence that happened before that arrival.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 582.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |
| --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source section (U.S. Code) |
| 11303 | 46:203 |

Section 11303 provides a penalty for violation of the provisions about logbooks in this part.